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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Baron de Montesquieu

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War

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